The Other Liz `N` Dick . . .

January 15, 1985|By Michael Sneed and Cheryl Lavin.

Isn`t the attorney always the last to know? Former police Supt. Richard Brzeczek told INC. Monday that he and his wife, Liz, had resumed living together ``a couple of months ago`` and that she would be meeting with her attorney, Bernie Rinella, to drop the divorce suit she filed the day after he lost his race for state`s attorney. Rinella got the call late Monday; Liz, he says, is giving Dick ``the benefit of the doubt`` and dropping the suit. She is working as a nurse; Brzeczek says he`ll be opening a law office soon.

Watch for President Reagan`s second inauguration to include more blacks than his first. Since the election, several attempts have been made to establish better relationships between black leaders and the White House, and INC. hears that they`ve intensified now that U.S. Rep. William Gray (D., Pa.) has been elected chairman of the House Budget Committee. Gray, asked at a recent social gathering how he was planning to handle the Reagan budget, jokingly responded that he had ordered a rubber stamp: ``D.O.A.`` (Dead on Arrival). . . . The ``average couple`` attending the inauguration will spend $3,500 during their four-day stay--which means they`re not very average. . . . Women for Reagan-Bush are throwing a Saturday bash in D.C.`s Shoreham Hotel to ``celebrate`` what the Grand Ole Party has done for women during the Reagan years. Dorcas Hardy, Health and Human Services assistant secretary, who`s organizing the event, is hoping that Maureen ``Mighty Mo`` Reagan shows up with Dad and Nancy. . . . One event planned for the Illinois delegation turned out to be a bust before it even got started. That`s Sunday`s Super Bowl party. It`s still on, but for some reason, nobody`s heart is in it.

5Super Bowl diary . . .

San Francisco . . . Greetings from the home of the Super Brawl a/k/a the Stupor Bowl, the Hoopla Bowl, and the Hyperbole. . . . San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre are betting crab dinners that their hometown teams will win. . . . 850 phony SB tickets were discovered hidden in a SF sewer. If you can`t tell by the smell whether yours are phonies, the sky above the Golden Gate bridge on the bogus tickets is blue;

it`s deep purple on the real thing. . . . Scalpers are getting $600 to $800 for tickets with a face value of $60. . . . Weather forecasters are predicting rain for Sunday, but umbrellas have been banned in Stanford Stadium so that spectators` views won`t be obstructed. Fans are up in arms, but SF lawyer Melvin Belli says that ``Pete Rozelle (NFL commissioner) leased the stadium, and he can do anything he likes.``

-- Money matters: Saturday night`s $1,000-a-plate bash thrown by NFL alums sounds like a snore: Tennessee Ernie Ford and Les Brown and his Band of Renown are headlining. . . . 49ers` quarterback Joe Montana, who`s getting married for the third time in February, has a 6-year contract worth $6.3 million; Dolphins` QB Dan Marino, in comparison, makes peanuts: $200,000 this year, plus a $50,000 bonus. . . . Loot for rooters: A custom-made telephone in the shape of a 49ers` helmet will set you back $300.

A TV commercial for Habilitat, a Hawaii drug treatment center, features testimonials by several of the center`s young residents who provide only their first names. But the one who identifies himself as ``Griffin`` is immediately recognizable as Ryan O`Neal`s son. . . . Madeline Kahn opens late this month off-Broadway in ``What`s Wrong with This Picture.`` . . . Chicagoan Virginia Madsen will miss seeing herself this week in ``The Hearst-Davies Affair;``

she`s filming the ``Mussolini`` miniseries with George C. Scott in Yugoslavia, where her mom, Elaine, and brother Michael are visiting. . . . The Knickerbocker Hotel management hauled a grand piano up to the 12th floor for Stevie Wonder, in town for the Martin Luther King tribute.

SMALL SCREEN SCENE . . .

Elliott Gould, Shuko Akune, and Bruce Young of the CBS-TV version of

``E.R.,`` are to appear Feb. 3 in the original stage version of the long-running hit play in Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. . . . Patrick Duffy wants to burn his bridges when he leaves ``Dallas.`` He doesn`t want one of those ambiguous plane-crash-in-the-Andes endings that would allow him to pop up later. When Jane Pauley asked him on a ``Today`` interview to air Tuesday how he`d write his death scene he said, ``I`d like to save the entire family from a catastrophe, single-handedly, sort of like Rin-Tin-Tin.`` . . . Is anybody keeping track of exactly when TV commentators started calling President Reagan ``this President``? Was it before or after sheiks (sheeks) became shakes?